Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-08-26
Genaer rs Prohibition.

EDlToR REVIEW: will review some OF
the Plaindealer's insinuations. In the first
place the Plaindealer said if the Prohibition
Amendment does not receive majority Of
the votes il has done some good, it has caused
the democrats TO study the Bible. / would
say we read the Bible to find out how the peo.
pie of God done in their affairs, and if the
pruhis would read the Bible more and live as
the Bible tells them they would mind their
own business and let others do right. The
democrats study the Bible and live accordingly.
We want to judge no man in meat or in drink
or in respect Of an holy day as the great
Apostle tells us. Now more about the con.
sistency OF the Plaindealer, he says that the
democrats have been in office three years and
have done nothing to retrench. think they
tried to get the tariff reduced but the repub-
licans and a few democrats out voted the
Morrison bill every time. Did the republican.
vote for the tariff bill2 Not one. Who is to
blame but the republicans, the democrats have
expelled hundreds of extra clerks and have
retrenched some, but not near enough. But
they are after their tracks yet and will get them
Strengthened after while. Now will turn
my attention to my prohi friends. They say
you can have liquors for medicine and mechan-
icle purposes. o yes but how is that, YOU
are not allowed to make liquors, how will it
be got? Now cone out plain and tell the
truth, don't deceive any one, you mean to not
allow any liquors made no wine nor beer.
Come out and back the amendment tell what
you want, don't whip the devil around the
bush come out and be honest with the voters,
don't deceive no one. You know that il the
liquors are made the druggists will sell as much
as the people want, you know that anyhow,
but you stop the manufacture and that is the
trick in the amendment. Now voters the
truth is this, that no sale and manufacture of
liquors is what the amendment calls for, and
don't be deceived. Do not be gulled by the
hired help that is going around for money tell
ing many false yarns. They say they have no
use for jails in: Michigan, we'll we have for we
have game law, and its been put in force
and other things that we want Jail for, we
might need ii for to put brother Culp in or his
likes, so we had best not rent our jail yet till
the people arc ready TO let men do as they
please. Now prohls / want you 10 look out
for read Of curse came upon one prohi and
all his postcrity, The circumstance is this;
Father Noah got drunken and his prohi son
made fun Of his father and his father cursed
him and all his posterity. Genesis GO.
And Noah began to be husoandman and he
planted vinyard and he drank of the wine
and was drunken, now what followed this son
Ham made fun of his father and his father was
| man of God and he cursed his son and the
curse was on his posterity and was made slaves
10 their brothers. For the cause OF being a
prohibitionist and the prohis had better look
out for they say there is oyer 5000, ,ooo, 900
worth Of liquors used in 1883. So you see
there must be great multitude that use it and
they will not give up SO much pleasure with
out great fight. If any man don't want to
use liquors it wont hurt him if he lets il alone,
it don't hurt me it has done me good but no
harm. SO we are in free country yet, let
us be free, use what we please without die
;ator. G. w. GENGER.